Thanos Grammenos
Also Known As: Θάνος Γραμμένος, Θανος Γραμμενος
Biography: Born in 1927 in Agrinio, he studied at the drama schools of Sokratis Karatinos and the National Theater and participated in several classic films of Greek cinema such as Thiasos and The Stone Years. Grammenos became widely known from the role of the servant Mathios of the film family of the "Fourtunakis" in the film "The Fairy and the Boy". He was one of the co-founders of the cooperative troupe of S.E.H. Arma Theater, while he also worked as an assistant director in the cinema. He worked as a journalist in the literary magazine Efitheorisi Technis, where he wrote theater and cinema reviews and in 1974 he founded the publishing company Thymari.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Agrinio, Greece
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 14, 2019
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Towards freedom
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Years of the Big Heat
Overview: One woman's lonely search for the truth about her mother's murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1992-05-01
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Soul and Flesh
Overview: A pilot complicates his life with his wife and daughter when he starts an affair with another woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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45m²
Overview: A young woman's struggle to overcome life's economic restrictions in order to meet her true will. She is twenty-three and lives with her mother, a compromise she can no longer stand. Despite her meager economic means, only enough to survive the first two months, she moves out and rents a 45m2 apartment of her own. During these two months of freedom, she explores her true self and approaches a more poetic and liberal culture, for her, a new way of life that slowly unfolds as she rummages through the belongings that the former renter, a guy her age, has left in the apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2011-01-20
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Days of '36
Overview: The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-09-30
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The Reconstruction
Overview: A magistrate reconstructs the murder of Costas Ghoussis, a labourer who was killed by his wife and her lover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-09-24
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I Neraida Kai to Palikari
Overview: Fourtounakis’ daughter, Katerinio, is forced to get engaged with a brutal Cretan, Skandalakis. But the return of Manousos Vrontakis from Athens and his flirtation with the girl leads to a great romance, without them knowing that they belong to families who are longstanding enemies.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-12-22
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Προσοχή, κίνδυνος!
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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Alexander the Great
Overview: Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-09-08
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The Hunters
Overview: During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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Journey to Mytilene
Overview: After 20 years in Paris, an inheritance brings Kostas back to his hometown Mytilini. Thats where he will meet again with a young girl who he firstly met in France, and his relatives bringing back memories of his childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2010-11-18
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Ulysses' Gaze
Overview: An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-10-12
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On Course
Overview: A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for something precious that his father hid on one of the Aegean islands during the years of Greek Resistance and Civil War.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-02
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I Loved an Armchair
Overview: Years ago, Grigoris was forced to sell four velvet armchairs to the junk dealer. After the death of his aunt, he was informed that her entire legacy, which was a box of jewelry, was hidden in one of those four armchairs. In the meantime, the armchairs had been sold to other people, and so a desperate quest for the right armchair begins, resulting in many and sometimes grotesque adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Balkanisateur
Overview: Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1997-04-16
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The Children of the Swallow
Overview: A journalist (Alekos Alexandrakis), working together with a young director (Peris Michailidis), tries to gather information about a family that was separated due to political turmoil. They locate some of its members, who tell their dramatic stories that began with the Civil War. The two men’s search is interrupted when a key person refuses to speak
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-06-15
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The Travelling Players
Overview: This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra plots revenge on her mother for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes, a young anti-fascist rebel.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1975-07-01
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The Colors of Iris
Overview: A mysterious disappearance takes place during the shooting of a commercial on the beach in the early morning hours. An unknown man suddenly comes into the shot, then walks into the sea holding an umbrella and seizes to exist, before the bewildered eyes of the whole crew. After the police are notified, a confusing array of red tape manoeuvers begins, revealing the close affiliations of the Authorities with the advertising company manager and the whole mechanism of Mass Media, all of which are trying not to investigate the event but to conceal or even exploit it in their own interest. Only the musician involved in that commercial is trying to figure out what really happened.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1974-05-07
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The Crossing
Overview: The story of a poor farmer from Bangladesh who migrate to Greece deported back, attempts to return back to Greece but luck is not on his side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Ο παλληκαράς
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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I am innocent
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Enemy Within
Overview: Revenge is a recurrent theme in thrillers, usually dispensed by action heroes with a well-stocked arsenal. But in Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’s nuanced moral maze the protagonist is the bookish Kostas (Manolis Mavromatakis), a suburban florist well versed in social and political theory, which he discusses at length with a local publican. But when his home is invaded by masked hoodlums, who bind his family and rape his teenage daughter, our everyman hero finds his intellectual stance untenable. Encouraged by his paranoid, militarist neighbour, Kostas decides to take the law into his own hands, and in doing so begins to understand – for the first time – the world he has been living in. The vigilante movie is a well-explored genre too, but Tsemberopoulos gives it a whole new urgency, subverting the cliched right-wing fantasy structure and seeing it through the eyes of a man who comes to find his real self while trying to live up to the (imagined) expectations of others. (Source: LFF programme)
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2013-11-13
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Stone Years
Overview: The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of dictatorship in 1974
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-06
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Οδομαχία
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2008-11-16
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The Iron Gate
Overview: In a poor neighborhood of Athens, Andreas and Eftyhis are struggling to eke out a living. Making the most of the adventurism inspired in them by the post-war era and trying to make a life for themselves against the backdrop of the post-dictatorship conservative regime, the two heroes gradually lose their political conciousness and social identity and are led to ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1978-10-07
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Lieutenant Natassa
Overview: The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, and during the train ride she recalls those past events. Before the beginning of the Greek-Italian war, she met Orestis . With the German invasion, Orestis, who was an officer in the Greek army, left for the Middle East. She followed him and accompanied him back to occupied Greece on a mission. She was arrested, interrogated and tortured and was finally sentenced to execution.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-12-12
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To kanarini podilato
Overview: A new teacher comes by transfer to an elementary school in Athens. He will distinguish a student which can't read, write or do arithmetic, and will help to discover some other talents he has, and will give him an incentive to try to learn.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2000-02-18
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Ο παράδεισος ανοίγει με αντικλείδι
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Master of the Shadows
Overview: Shadow puppetry is not only part of the heritage of East Asia; Greece had its own traditional form of this popular art. In this leisurely drama, set in 1950s Athens, Antonis Barkis (Kostas Kasakos) is the master puppeteer for a traditional shadow show. However, although he is still making a living, it is clear that other forms of popular entertainment will soon supplant this one. This does not improve Antonis' temper, and his assistant's desires to modernize their entertainments only make it worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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